Lindsay Wong is a Canadian writer, whose memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family was published in 2018."Lindsay Wong uses humour to examine her family’s history of mental illness and supernatural beliefs". Toronto Star, October 6, 2018. The book, a humorous memoir about her Chinese Canadian family's history of mental illness,"Why Lindsay Wong wrote a memoir about her family's mental health struggles". CBC Books, January 31, 2019. won the 2019 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and was a shortlisted finalist for the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction."Elizabeth Hay, Terese Marie Mailhot, Lindsay Wong among Weston Prize finalists". Quill & Quire, September 19, 2018.
Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia,"The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family". Quill & Quire, October 2018. Wong wrote the book while pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University in New York City.
The Woo-Woo was selected for the 2019 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by Joe Zee,"Chuck Comeau, Joe Zee, Lisa Ray take on Canada Reads battle of the books". CityNews, January 31, 2019. and was longlisted for the 2019 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.Jane van Koeverden, "Eden Robinson, Rick Mercer & Lindsay Wong longlisted for 2019 Leacock Medal for humour". CBC Books, April 23, 2019.
Wong's book Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality: Stories came out in 2023, and was shortlisted for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes in 2024.Cassandra Drudi, "2024 BC and Yukon Book Prizes shortlists announced". Quill & Quire, April 11, 2024.
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